Hotel Mocking Bird Hill

... old. Apparently there is one in London Zoo that is 360 years old. There are also iguanas in pens. We also see the pesky Galapagos mocking bird and the large beak ground finch. On the way back to town, we stop at the bank to get money. Our first try ...

... we walked to the beach we saw lots of lava lizards (the female has an orange head as you can see in the pics), and a Galapagos mocking bird, the most curious little thing, he was hopping in between my feet and all around us! We also saw the first of many ...

... . We were shown how to tell the males from the females (larger pupils in the female). We saw some other birds including the mocking bird and Galapagos Dove on our way back to the boat. What an amazing day: the albatros were very majestic and impressive ...

... as the pilot ensured we had two shots to get a good glimpse of each one and generally managed to get photos of all apart from the Mocking Bird, goodness knows how we missed it, we are still trying to work it out as that was one was huge.  The Owl ...

... them declined to purchase.  We made a few jokes about it, our tour guide was clearly unimpressed as she thought we were mocking Chinese medicine, but in fact their whole set up was a mockery in itself!  We then headed for a relaxing tea ...

... , Great Blue Heron, Greater Flamingo, Blue Footed Boobies, Nazca Boobies, Storm Petra ls, Short Eared owls, Galapagos Finches, Mocking Birds, Red footed boobies, Yellow crowned night heron, Penguins, Black necked stilt, Swallow tailed gull, Brown Pelican ...

... waves crash in followed by a huge water spout from the rocks. We got very close to blue footed boobies, Galapagos doves, Espanola mocking birds and pelicans. Juan calls the wildlife naive not tame. On the beach Juan sat at the waters edge, within minutes ...

... ). His observant eye distinguished the differences between the 13 different but very similar finches that inhabited these islands and the mocking birds (his favourite) which seemed to be similar to those in Chile but were again different from island to ...